Author: simplysoberj
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The Lymphatic System and Addiction Recovery
The main goal of recovering from addiction is to get healthy. Stopping drug-use is a small part of that; yet it’s the main focus. The main goal of this article is to inform you that treatment is important but lacks addiction education, severely. I see so many in recovery running around trying to “not use”…
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GETTING THROUGH ROUGH TIMES SOBER
Sometimes early recovery can be easier than keeping your sobriety in real life. In early recovery you might be in a controlled environment, have some prescription pad help, massive supervision, and reduced access to your drug. You are provided space and time to practice getting through the day sober with lesser stressors from life’s left…
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Beware of the Narcissist
Whether it was before, during, or after addiction, at some point you will have a narcissist in your life that you will need to deal with—maybe even a few. Chaos magic, flying monkeys, stress psychosis, inciting and feeding off of your reactions and living in your mind rent free; secret slanders, gossip, lies, financial leveraging,…
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This is My Hell
Early Recovery from Addiction : What I Would Tell Myself if I Could Go Back CHAPTER 1: I’ll Take it Shaking … and Stirred Before the sea of chaos reached my lips, I added the final ingredient. A tear from my insanity. – Yours Truly Time Period: Pre-Recovery, Still Drunk Most of the people who…
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Brutal Honesty and The Unseen World of Lies
Brutal honesty is a requirement for healing and growth. I could not heal and grow while I was still lying to myself and to other people. It not only enabled other maladaptive behaviors (beside the lies themselves), but also, my body knows when I’m lying, my spirit knows I am lying, and the practice of…
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Recovery is what kept me addicted: don’t get stuck in recovery
Addiction recovery programs, such as 12-Step and Health Realization, helped me stay sober in early recovery. They introduced me to some key concepts for growth—I’m not knocking-it. But sobriety does not mean I am recovered. These programs are designed for recovery, but is that even the end game? “Recovery is defined as a return to…
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The Trauma We Don’t Name in Addiction Recovery
This article is not intended to minimize anyone’s trauma, but to discuss a hidden trauma nobody talks about. In my experience, talk therapy was part of early recovery, and while I was attending these sessions the goal was to dig until you hit the coffin of a dead past, open it, and exchange fists with…
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When Thoughts Attack
A Racing mind, intrusive thoughts, a swirling collage of ideas, memories, and predictions—some haunting. It kept me up at night and hyper during the day. Some called it insomnia; I called it an uncontrollable circus. This had been a problem for me ever since I was young, but it certainly went into overdrive when I…
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Battle Addiction with Breath
This article is not about breathing techniques. It is about the many ways breathing can be tooled: a better understanding of this essential element we take for granted. While breathing is our first and foremost survival essential—along with water, food, sleep, etc.—it is one of the most underrated, underused, and for the most part, forgotten…
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Why Getting Colds and Flu can be a Trigger
Why is it that, for some people, catching a Cold or getting the Flu is a trigger to use again? Is it merely the desire to mitigate discomfort; or, maybe just out of habit, an automatic response to the symptoms? I can surely recall tossing back a hot toddy or two when I got sick…
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